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The Jailbird Flight
By Donald E. Keyhoe
Below the Rio Grande he had once been known as “The Killer.” Now Captain Bruce Kirby flew through hell skies, leader of the strangest squadron that ever dared face death from flaming Spandaus. Outcasts—all of them—branded with the convict’s arrow! No cowards came to the Jailbird drome—only those dishonored war eagles who chose a chance to die in action rather than rot behind prison bars. Hot tempers, liquor, and the madness of war had brought them low—but beneath it all they still were men! A former U.S. Marine pilot, author Donald E. Keyhoe was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines, but he is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research in the Fifties and Sixties. In August of 1931, Keyhoe started three long-lived series in three different aviation magazines: Captain Philip Strange in Flying Aces; The Devil Dog Squadron in Sky Birds; and The Jailbird Flight in Battle Aces. This volume features the first seven Jailbird adventures published by Popular Publications in 1931 and ‘32: The Jailbird Flight, The Drome of Vanishing Men, The Masked Skull Squadron, The Jailbird Ace, Dead Man’s Drome, Claws of the Jailbird, and The Skeleton Ace.
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America’s enemies have assembled squadrons of flying furies, exploding skeletons, and invisible airplanes to turn the tide of the First World War. But when things get weird, we get Strange. Captain Philip Strange, that is—ace pilot and so-called “Brain-Devil” of G-2 Intelligence. His assignment? Journey from the back-alleys of Paris to the skies over Germany, taking down flying fortresses, cursed aerodromes, strafing skulls, and other wild weapons of mass destruction! This fourth volume of Philip Strange missions includes seven thrilling tales: Satan's Staffel, The Vanishing Staffel, Hoodoo Drome, The Skull Staffel, The Skeleton Barrage, Staffel of the Starved, and The Staffel Invisible.
$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 394 pages
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| | Airship 27 Productions SINBAD - THE NEW VOYAGES VOLUME 5
Now available!
Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the release of the fifth volume in their best-selling fantasy adventure series, SINBAD – The New Voyages.
They are the most daring, courageous, fool hardy seagoing crew ever assembled. Foremost among them are Henri Delacrois, the French archer, Ralf Gunarson, the blonde Viking giant, the lovely female samurai, Tishimi Osara and Omar the irascible first mate. These are the colorful adventurers of the magnificent Blue Nymph. All pledged to follow their captain, the most famous sailor of all time, Sinbad El Ari.
Now they return in four brand new fantasy tales by Barbara Doran, Ron Fortier, Lee Houston Jr. and Percival Constantine. They battle an old adversary in returning an aged wizard to his homeland, are threatened by deadly traps in searching for a long lost treasure and confront a shape shifting shaman on a mysterious south sea island.
And now Airship 27 Productions’ own Managing Editor, Ron Fortier, offers up his own story in this fifth collection of the popular series inspired by filmmaker Ray Harryhausen. “When I first conceived of this particular Sinbad and his international crew, I was totally remembering those three classic Sinbad movies,” admits Fortier. “What kid wasn’t mesmerized by his incredible stop-motion monsters, djins and sea creatures? Doing this series was our chance of hopefully recapture some of that fun.”
Terry Pavlet provides the stunning cover with Michael Dean Jackson the twelve black and white interior illustrations, all designed and assembled by this year’s Pulp Factory Award winner, Art Director Rob Davis. Readers of the previous four volumes have been clamoring more and here they are. Set against the backdrop of far-off exotic lands filled with magic and mystery. Here are epic tales worthy of this legendary hero, Sinbad the Sailor!
Available from Amazon in hard copy, coming soon on Kindle, and later as an audiobook from Radio Archives.
Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!
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| Altus Press: Enjoy Pulps! - New pulp blog by David Lee Smith is now online!
"Enjoy Pulps" - A New Blog Premieres on AltusPress.com
Pulp fan David Lee Smith has started a column on www.altuspress.com. The first installment covers the latest goings-on with recent sales prices.
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Ka-Zar Pulps, 1936-1937 - New!
“The Pot of Gold” by Eudora Ramsay Richardson (a Pre-Spider/Richard Wentworth Story)
Pulps Pricings Sales Census
| Altus Press Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!
The Irrationals by Milton Lesser (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Science Fiction Magazine “Common Time” by James Blish
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.
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The Argosy Library: Series 2 (10 book set)
by Max Brand, Murray R. Montgomery, Norbert Davis, Fred MacIsaac, Theodore Roscoe,
Loring Brent, Ralph Milne Farley, Cleve F. Adams, J.U. Giesy & Junius B. Smith, and Jack Bechdolt
This specially-priced set includes all ten books in Series 2 of The Argosy Library:
Champion of Lost Causes by Max Brand, introduction by William F. Nolan
The Scarlet Blade: The Rakehelly Adventures of Cleve and d’Entreville, Volume 1 by Murray R. Montgomery
Doan and Carstairs: Their Complete Cases by Norbert Davis, introduction by Evan Lewis
The King Who Came Back by Fred MacIsaac
Blood Ritual: The Adventures of Scarlet and Bradshaw, Volume 1 by Theodore Roscoe
The City of Stolen Lives: The Adventures of Peter the Brazen, Volume 1 by Loring Brent, introduction by Will Murray
The Radio Gun-Runners by Ralph Milne Farley
Sabotage by Cleve F. Adams
The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual, the Occult Detector, Volume 2: 1912–13 by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith, introduction by Garyn Roberts, Ph.D
South of Fifty-Three by Jack Bechdolt
$209.50 softcover / $309.40 hardcover / $59.90 eBook
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Author Frederick Faust (AKA Max Brand) spins a tale of mystery and melodrama as Samuel Loring battles to save a girl unjustly accused of murder in a story never before reprinted. Originally serialized in seven installments in Flynn’s Magazine, Champion of Lost Causes was one of Brand’s earliest works to be filmed as a movie.
324 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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One of the most popular series from Argosy’s later years, Murray R. Montgomery penned a number of stories chronicling the adventures of Her Majesty’s Guard Richard Cleve and French cavalier Monsieur le Comte Guy d’Entreville… partners and rakehellies of the Cardinal’s Guard and in the service of Cardinal Richelieu in seventeenth-century France.
283 pages
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The Argosy Library Volume 13
For the first time in an authorized edition, all five stories of Doan and his “partner,” his Great Dane, Carstairs. These quirky hard-boiled detective stories were written by Norbert Davis, the Black Mask author who inspired Raymond Chandler to try his hand at the genre. This edition includes all three Doan and Carstairs novels (The Mouse in the Mountain, Sally’s in the Alley, and Oh, Murder Mine), as well as the two short stories from the pulps: “Holocaust House” and “Cry Murder!” It’s rounded off with an all-new introduction by Evan Lewis.
582 pages
$29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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The Argosy Library Volume 14
The author of the Rambler series pens this tale which was amongst his best works to appear in the pages of Argosy. After abdicating the throne of King of the European monarchy of Berania in order to avert civil war, young Carlos Aronhof realizes there’s more to his rapidly changing fortunes than meets the eye. A tale spanning Europe to Hollywood, Aronhof quickly finds himself immersed in espionage, political intrigue, skullduggery, murder, and the stolen Beranian crown jewels.
224 pages
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The Argosy Library Volume 15 BLOOD RITUAL: THE ADVENTURES OF SCARLET AND BRADSHAW, VOLUME 1
by Theodore Roscoe
Best remembered as the author of Thibaut Corday and his French Foreign Legion yarns, author Theodore Roscoe wrote another, little-known, long-running series: the adventures of curio hunter Peter Scarlet and Bradshaw, the naturalist. While each appeared in solo stories, they also teamed up in several yarns. These tales of treasure in the Orient are action-filled adventure by one of pulpdom’s best. Without a doubt a lost gem of the pulps.
244 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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| | Altus Press
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The Argosy Library Volume 16
One of the greatest series from the pages of Argosy is finally collected, complete and in order! Footloose ship’s wireless operator Peter Moore becomes embroiled in mystery and intrigue in China as he faces the despotic Gray Dragon, thus beginning Moore’s long-running, adventure-filed journey across several decades of pulp fiction masterpieces. Written by long-time Argosy author George F. Worts under his primary pen-name, Peter the Brazen made a marked impression on Argosy reader Lester Dent when he co-created Doc Savage. The saga of Peter the Brazen is amongst the best adventure series in the history of pulp fiction.
274 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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The Argosy Library Volume 17 THE RADIO GUN-RUNNERS
by Ralph Milne Farley
A sequel to his previous Argosy novel, The Radio Flyers, author Ralph Milne Farley pens this science-fiction classic set in a hollow earth. Although compared favorably to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pelucidar series, Farley’s multi-layered tale of adventure at the earth’s pole weaves gangsters and Norse Vikings into an offbeat tale never before reprinted.
204 pages
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The Argosy Library Volume 18 SABOTAGE
by Cleve F. Adams
Originally published as a six-part serial in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1939, Sabotage introduced readers to forgotten hard-boiled master Cleve F. Adams’ number one detective: Rex McBride. The strength of the nation was dedicated to building the great dam at Palos Verde, and when a sinister foe determined to sabotage that life-giving project, it fell to the lot of Rex McBride, the world’s most unorthodox detective, to attempt a job at which the government’s daring, well-trained operatives shied.
204 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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The Argosy Library Volume 19 THE COMPLETE CABALISTIC CASES OF SEMI DUAL, THE OCCULT DETECTOR, VOLUME 2: 1912–13
by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith
Introduction by Garyn Roberts, Ph.D
Pulpdom’s greatest occult detective returns! Volume 2 of the complete reprinting of the Semi Dual series brings three more never-before-reprinted metaphysical, psychological and speculative science adventures, all from the pages of the Munsey pulp magazine, The Cavalier. This volume contains the next three stories: “The Purple Light,” “The Master Mind,” and “Rubies of Doom,” exactly as they were written by Semi Dual creators J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith.
328 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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| | Altus Press
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The Argosy Library Volume 20 SOUTH OF FIFTY-THREE
by Jack Bechdolt
Written by the author of the post-apocalyptic science-fiction classic, The Torch, Jack Bechdolt penned this fast-paced tale of Alaskan adventure for Argosy All-Story Weekly at the height of that magazine’s popularity.
225 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover / $5.99 eBook
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| Altus Press
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GEORGE CHANCE: THE GHOST OMNIBUS VOLUME 1
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Magician George Chance, AKA the crime-fighter known as The Ghost,
who has done more in the service of the Law than any other man of his generation.
Master of the science of criminology, remorseless crime-tracker and criminal catcher!
When The Ghost walks, the underworld stirs into deadly life to combat him.
This omnibus contains the first two adventures of The Ghost, uncut, and with the original illustrations.
264 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
Available from Adventure House and Mike Chomko and coming soon to the Altus Press website.
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THE CRIMSON MASK OMNIBUS VOLUME 2
by Norman A. Daniels
Part of the early 1940s pulp hero revival, pharmacist Bob Clarke takes on the underworld as The Crimson Mask!
Volume 2 contains the next five adventures:
“The Crimson Mask and the Vanishing Men”
“The Crimson Mask's Ghost Trail”
“The Diamond Death Trail”
“The Money Trail”
“Murders of the Black Rose”
All stories are uncut and contain all of the original illustrations.
280 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
Available from Adventure House and Mike Chomko and coming soon to the Altus Press website.
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THE COMPLETE CASEBOOK OF SGT. BRINKHAUS
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Will Murray
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel’s longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman “Brinky” Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly.
389 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover
Available from Adventure House and Mike Chomko and coming soon to the Altus Press website.
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THE COMPLETE CASES OF CARDIGAN (2 Volume Deluxe Edition)
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Will Murray
Frederick Nebel’s unforgettable character Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons behind the success of the legendary Dime Detective Magazine. His hard-boiled P.I. stories were a major influence to other writers of the era, yet only a handful have been reprinted since their original 44-story run eighty years ago. This deluxe two-volume contains the entire series of 44 stories, complete and uncut, with an introduction by Will Murray and the original illustrations by John Fleming Gould.
698 pages / 8.5×11″ / $140 hardcover
Available from Adventure House and Mike Chomko and coming soon to the Altus Press website.
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| | Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books Now available in comic shops!
Now available at online retailers!
THE SHADOW Volume 106: "Room of Doom" & "The Chest of Chu-Chan"
The Shadow investigates impossible murders in two magical mysteries by Walter B. Gibson. The Knight of Darkness investigates a bizarre "Room of Doom" to uncover the truth behind a "locked room" death. Was it suicide or murder? Then, The Shadow seeks to discover how the new owner of "The Chest of Chu-Chan" was found entombed inside his new locked acquisition. Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
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| | Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books Coming to online retailers in late July/early August!
Coming to comic shops August 31!
THE SHADOW Volume 110: "The House on the Ledge" & "The League of Death"
10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL showcasing The Shadow's comic book debut!
Sanctum Books commemorates ten years of classic pulp reprints with two powerhouse thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, escaping from counterfeiters, a young woman and her guardian take refuge in "The House on the Ledge," without knowing that their only hope for salvation lurks in the shadows! Then,The Shadow seeks to answer the strange riddle of why killers are taking their own lives—along with those of their victims! BONUS: The Shadow's 1940 Golden Age of Comics debut from the super-rare Shadow Comics #1 and Walter Gibson recalls writing "A Million Words a Year for Ten Years." This double-novel collector's edition showcases the classic color pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney and the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Anthony Tollin and Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-214-8 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
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| | Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books FOR SERIOUS DOC SAVAGE COLLECTORS ONLY!
Anthony Tollin is offering up for sale George Rozen's preminary cover art for the final three issues of DOC SAVAGE magazine. These rare artifacts are Rozen's actual hand-drawn preliminary artwork for Doc Savage's final three pulp advantures, drawn in 1948 and 1949 by the artist who painted nearly 200 SHADOW pulp covers, and have been in my personal convention for more than a quarter century. DOC SAVAGE pulp art is incredibly rare with only a few of the original paintings surviving. All three of George Rozen's final DOC SAVAGE covers are memorable images, especially the iconic final cover where Doc battles hellish Underworld demons. (White areas at bottom of GREEN MASTER and RETURN FROM CORMORAL scan are glare from the plastic covering and not on the actual art.)
Prices for the three preliminary covers are:
$1250. - THE GREEN MASTER
$1250. - RETURN FROM CORMORAL
$1750. - UP FROM EARTH'S CENTER
Interested parties should contact Anthony Tollinofflist at sanctumotr@earthlink.net
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| Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!
The League of the Seventh Son; Steve Payne's new Secret Agent X Novel
Steve Payne offers us a look at the man who became Secret Agent X. Basing his speculations on the actual hints from the original pulp stories, Steve's latest novel The League of the Seventh Son helps us see how Secret Agent X came to be.
In this rollicking adventure story, an ancient evil arises in New York planning the destruction of America. Only the-man-would-become-X stands between the USA and a plot for revolution.
Past episodes:
Michael Panush and his novel "The Dagger Men"
Tom and Ginger Johnson: The Pulp Power Couple
Rick Lai, Cthulhu, and Dangerous Things!
Crosswise by S.W. Lauden
Jerry Gill on his Vic Challenger Series
"The Black Bat Returns" New Stories for a Classic Pulp Hero
Gary Phillips talks about Bass Reeves and his collection "3 the Hard Way"
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TIDES OF HATE & THE SCIENCE FICTION OF EARL REPP
Now available!
Tides of Hate a novel of buccaneers, gold and revenge by Captain A. E. Dingle
Ed Davies, Swan and the Frenchman L’Escuyler, pirates all, captured a fortune in Spanish gold only to see it vanish one night. All three blame the other for the theft and all three plan to return to the Isthmus of Panama to reclaim their gold. To get there Davies must partner with another pirate, John Cook, a man who no more trusts Davies than he does Swan or L’Escuyler. But twenty ass’s load of gold is too great a lure to ignore.
A thrilling tale of treachery on the high seas. Print editon $6.00 plus postage.
Also new this week:
The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 2 - The Invisible Raider and other Air Wonder Stories
Table of Contents
The Invisible Raider - Air Wonder Stories, October 1929
Beyond The Aurora - Air Wonder Stories November 1929
The Storm Buster - Air Wonder Stories January 1930
The Sky Ruler - Air Wonder Stories May 1930
and
The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and Other Stories
Table of Contents
The Stellar Missile - Science Wonder Stories, November, 1929.
The Second Missile - (sequel to The Stellar Missile) - Amazing Stories, December, 1930
The Synthetic Man - Wonder Stories, December 1930
Other recent releases include:
MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS
Leslie F. Stone was one of the earliest women writers of Science Fiction, beginning in 1929. She never hide her sex by using initials and didn’t try to write like “one of the boys.”
“Men With Wings” is her first published story, a short novella about the evolution of a species of flying humans and the utopian society they form. Its sequel, “Women With Wings” is set centuries later then winged humanity has come to replace Homo Sapiens. But tragedy stalks the flying species as the women are increasingly dying in childbirth. Unless something drastic is done the species will go extinct.
From the pages of Air Wonder Stories, Beb Books presents Men and Women with Wings.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99
GULF STREAM GOLD
Ed Earl Repp was a prolific writer from 1929 to 1933 before switching to Westerns where he was equally prolific. He returned to science fiction around 1938. “Gulf Stream Gold” collects four of his novelets from 1929-1932. Modern day fortune hunters search for underwater gold in “Gulf Stream Gold.” Submarine pirates stumbles into an air-filled cavern inhabited by monsters from ages past. Monsters from deep within the earth declare war on the surface in “The Metal World.” and a desert-rat his weird experience in Death Valley with a mother dragon in “From Out of the Earth.
From the pages of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly. Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99.
Beb Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction.
Here’s a list of forthcoming titles:
Beb Books’ Library of Early Science Fiction
Ed Earl Repp
(forthcoming) Book 1 - Beyond Gravity - a collection of Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 2 - The Invisible Raider - a second collection of his Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and other stories
(Now available) Book 4 - Gulf Stream Gold - Undersea and under the earth stories
(Now available) Book 5 - The Radium Pool and other stories
A. Hyatt Verrill
(Now available) Book 1 - Beyond the Pole and Inside The Crater’s Rim
(forthcoming) Book 2 - King of the Monkey Man and Dirigibles of Death
(forthcoming) Book 3 - The Man Who Could Vanish and other stories
Harl Vincent
(forthcoming) Book 1 - Subterrania, The Menace From Below
(forthcoming) Book 2 - Air-War - a collection
(forthcoming) Book 3 - Before The Asteroids - 3 space opera novelets.
(forthcoming) Book 4 - Vagabonds of Spaces - 4 space opera novelets
(forthcoming) Book 5 - Wander of Infinity - 5 Thrilling Adventures
Henrik Dahl Juve
(forthcoming) Book 1 - The Silent Destroyers - 4 Air-War thrillers
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Monsters of Neptune - 4 stories on other worlds
Bob Olsen
(Now available) Book 1 - The Four Dimensional World of Bob Olsen - explorations into higher physics
Earl L. Bell
(forthcoming) Book 1 - Moon of Doom - The end of the world.
Nat Schnacher and Arthur Leo Zaget
(Now available) Book 1 - The Tower of Evil - 4 weird adventures on the earth, in the future and beyond.
Laurence Manning
(Now available) Book 1 - Voyage of the Asteroid
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Wreck of The Asteroid
Pay by either check or money order to:
Brian Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224
or via Paypal to beb01@sprynet.com
Print editions are printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled on the side. Postage is $3.00 for one to three books. Add 25 cents extra for each copy over three.
Check out the rest of Beb Books many titles.
Ask for a catalog at beb01@sprynet.com
Ask for a list of everything in stock. It’s free.
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| BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT: A Gideon Crew Novel - Coming May 17!
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...
With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth.
Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.
But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space.
Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly...
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
List Price: $27.00
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| Black Coat Press
New titles now available!
THE HUMANISPHERE
Four French utopian fantasies by Paul Adam, Victor Considérant, Joseph Déjacque & Fernand Giraudeau
adapted by Brian Stableford
This collection presents four French "utopian fantasies" which were all ground-breaking in their day.
Victor Considerant's The Complete News from the Moon (1836) is a utopia in which the society described is only related to existing societies in satirical terms, and very subtly.
Fernand Giraudeau's The New City (1868) and Joseph Déjacque's The Humanisphere (1899) are both set in future Paris, one imagining the ideal society that might result from the politics of Anarchism, the other a dystopia arguing the opposite viewpoint.
Paul Adam's Letters from Malaisie (1898) presents a society that, although founded by eutopians, has produced a compromised result, in which eutopian and dystopian elements are fused, thus raising the question of whether any program of political reform could possibly produce the intended results, given the vagaries of human nature.
US $27.95 / GBP £19.99
5x8 trade paperback, 364 pages
THE DISCOVERY OF THE AUSTRAL CONTINENT BY A FLYING MAN
by Restif de la Bretonne; adapted by Brian Stableford
Contents:
La Découverte Australe par un Homme Volant ou Le Dédale Français (1781)
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.
In The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man (1781), Victorin devises a set of artificial wings to abduct his beloved Christine, before setting her up on top of a mountain as queen of her own utopia. Then he relocates to the southern ocean where he visits islands inhabited by giants and other variant human species, including beast-men combining the features of humans and animals. His voyage ends in the great City of Sirap, another utopia located in Megapatagonia.
The Discovery of the Austral Continent is unique, not only within Restif's oeuvre, but within the context of French imaginative fiction. By virtue of the deft combination of its technological element with the theoretical element, it is undoubtedly the most significant work of science-based speculative fiction produced before the French Revolution.
US $22.95 / GBP £16.99
5x8 trade paperback, 284 pages
THE CASEBOOK OF MONSIEUR LECOQ
by Emile Gaboriau; adapted by Nina Cooper
Emile Gaboriau, who was Paul Féval's secretary, penned these two masterpieces of early detective novels in 1867:
The Orcival Murder: Poachers discover the lifeless body of Countess of Tremorel in the woods near her castle. Her home has been ransacked and her husband has vanished. Despite the myriad of clues left to mislead the police, Monsieur Lecoq of the Sûreté solves the puzzle -- but at what price?
File 113: A bank's safe is robbed. Two men are suspected: one is the bank's owner who lives above the bank, the other is his trusted manager. But what if neither is guilty? Leave it to Monsieur Lecoq, a detective of many disguises and much guile to uncover the devastating truth of deceit, betrayal, lies and murder.
US $41.95 / GBP £28.99
6x9 trade paperback, 576 pages | 
| Black Dog Books
New titles now available!
The Scourge of the South Sea Skies
When a flying buddy goes missing, Jack Pelham is thrust into danger as the search expands from looking for his friend to seeking a lost treasure. Mystery rides high in this thrilling tale of the South Seas.
Wind Patrol
Black wings poise the finger of doom over the Indo-China coast. Murder and pillage paralyze the great fleet of Brackett's Airway as Bill Shade flies a shadowy sky-path to a temple of terror.
Brood of the Wind
Murder paints a crimson swath across the South Pacific sky from Noumea to Port Moresby. Pearls! . . . Jim Cole drapes the challenge around his seaplane's struts, and swoops into the red.
Sky Blazers
Over the frozen skies of Alaska, Jess Marlow plays a hand in the embittered battle for territorial freight rights between old Michael Harrigan and Kurt Dikeman. When the rumor of gold is spread, the battle escalates, with death in its frosty wake!
Fly-By-Night
Through icy air, Miller takes off with his motley passengers-only to find himself battling sky pirates seeking a $100,000 payday in bank gold!
With an introduction by Tom Roberts.
Trade paperback / 228 pages / Price: $19.95 US
Central City runs red from gangland war. Corruption and political graft undermine authority to the highest levels. In steps Captain John Murdock, Chief of Detectives, whose only interest is to do his job. Unpopular with both the media and with his superiors, nevertheless Murdock's methods gets results,—whether battling blackmailers, bootleggers, drug runners or organized crime!
Collected are the initial twenty stories in this long-running, reader favorite series, including:
Hard
The Murder Game
Pure Bluff
Tickets to Hell
Red Harvest
Frame-Up
The Pay-Off
The Square Seven
Wanted-One Corpse
Murder Ahead
Guests From the East
Furnace of Death
Trigger Traffic
The Key to Hell
The Wax Witness
The Murder Mill
The Dead Alibi
The Black Hood
The Juggernaut of Terror
Red Tape
With an introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, lecturer and award-winning popular culture historian.
Cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer.
Trade paperback / 320 pages / Price: $19.95 US
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| | | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Now available for immediate shipping!
This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's groundbreaking history of American cliffhanger serials of the silent-movie era. It covers some 190 "chapter plays" released by production and distribution entities such as Universal, Vitagraph, Mutual, Arrow, Rayart, and Mascot, along with member companies of the Edison Trust and various fly-by-night independent operators.Among the legendary serial stars whose output is documented and analyzed are Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber, Helen Holmes, Eddie Polo, Marie Walcamp, William Desmond, William Duncan, Eileen Sedgwick, Joe Bonomo, Elmo Lincoln, Ann Little, Jack Daugherty, Juanita Hansen, and Louise Lorraine. Serials that starred favorites from the sports and theatrical worlds — Harry Houdini, Billie Burke, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Benny Leonard, and Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, to name a few — are also covered.
At a length of nearly 160,000 words, illustrated with hundreds of rare stills, posters, lobby cards, magazine ads and even frame blowups from surviving film elements, HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS is the last word on this fascinating segment of American movie history. The product of a quarter century's research, it equals if not surpasses the award-nominated DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.
Single copy price is $29.95, but for a limited time only HANDSOME HEROES AND DISTRESSED DAMSELS can be purchased together for $49.95.
Visit muraniapress.com and use our convenient Checkout feature to order either or both.
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| | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Since 2002 Blood 'n' Thunder has celebrated adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Vintage pulp magazines, motion pictures, radio dramas, and newspaper comic strips are covered in its pages with extensively researched articles by the most prominent historians specializing in the study of these media.
The Blood 'n' Thunder Sampler offers previously unreprinted articles as they originally appeared in the magazine. Essentially, it's a book-length BnT that gives readers a better idea of what the typical issue looks like.
Included are surveys of the classic pulps Adventure, Dime Detective, and The Popular Magazine; essays on the first films featuring popular pulp characters Zorro and Hopalong Cassidy; articles chronicling the Old-Time Radio exploits of The Green Hornet; an overview of the mystery/espionage thrillers featuring Clubfoot the Avenger; a personal reflection on the return of Fu Manchu; a profile of distinguished adventure-story writer Gordon Young; legendary Black Mask editor Joseph "Cap" Shaw on writing for the pulps; and much more. In short, it's the perfect introduction to Blood 'n' Thunder.
Readers of the Sampler would have to purchase six issues of the journal at $12.50 each to get the material included in this book for $24.95.
It's the perfect introduction to the wonderful world of vintage pop culture chronicled in Blood 'n' Thunder. If you've heard of BnT but never seen a copy, this is the book for you!
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| | THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!
Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette. (The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed.
Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.
$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)
Click HERE to subscribe!
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| BULLETS & HEELS (Alyssa Bruin Action Series Book 1) - Available for download May 10!
by Philip Colgate
All Alyssa Bruin wants to do is become a singer in New York, but when she visits her grandfather for the holidays, she discovers he is a secret military operative and he needs her help. He is working to bring down a seedy underground human trafficking ring and he wants Alyssa to go in undercover.
Putting the weapon and survival skills she learned as a child to the test, Alyssa finds herself embroiled in a sinister plan. Who can she trust?
With bodies turning up across the country, Alyssa is in a race against time to stop the trafficking ring before anyone else dies.
Publication Date: May 10, 2016
Pre-order Price: $2.99
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| Castalia House Blog - Now online!
Retro Fandom Friday: Fans Have Always Fought - New!
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 4 - New!
Short Reviews – Cosmic Yo-Yo by Ross Rocklynne
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 3
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 2
| Centipede Press
MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION: FRITZ LEIBER
Now available!
Poet, actor, playwright, chess expert, master of fantastic fiction. Fritz Leiber was a true Renaissance Man. His writing crossed all boundaries, from horror to sword and sorcery. This book goes deep into Leiber’s underrated science fiction oeuvre. It’s a comprehensive, page-turning cache that captures Leiber’s thoroughly original style — altogether mystical, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing.
“The Foxholes of Mars” is a literary assault: a frightening, nitro-fueled tale of war on Mars, with one soldier questioning the futility and purpose of the battle against bug-eyed aliens — a distant mirror-image of our own times. “Space-Time for Springers” is told through the glaring eyes of Gummitch, a cat who happens to possess a genius IQ and a voracious appetite for scientific knowledge. “Night Passage” takes us on a dark journey into a Las Vegas where Earthlings and extra-terrestrials mingle and gamble — and where one man takes a moonlit ride with a mystery woman from Mercury, tailed by some very scary pursuers. “The Mutant’s Brother” is a malevolent mix of horror and SF, a tale of identical twins who each carry a frightful chromosome. One of them is also a monstrous serial killer. The literally chilling “A Pail of Air” takes place in an underground nest, where a family fights to survive in a sunless, moonless, post-apocalyptic world where even helium and carbon dioxide become crawling, shapeless threats.
Fritz Leiber was a storyteller and prophet for the ages. His work will never be dated or irrelevant. Treat this book like a crystal ball. These pages chronicle the world to come. You’ve been warned.
Over 700 pages of Fritz Leiber’s best science fiction.
Afterword by John Pelan.
Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
Signed by John Pelan and cover artists Jim & Ruth Keegan.
Fully cloth bound, gorgeous dustjacket, ribbon marker, head and tail bands.
Cloth in dustjacket $45
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| THE CTHULHU WARS: THE UNITED STATES' BATTLES AGAINST THE MYTHOS SC - Coming May 24!
(Writer) Kenneth Hite, Kennon Bauman; (Art) Darren Tan & Imaginary Friends Studios
From the Patriots' raid on the necromancer Joseph Curwen, to the Special Forces' assault on Leng in 2007, this history reveals the secret and terrible struggle between the United States and the supernatural forces of Cthulhu. In this war, immortal cultists worship other-dimensional entities, and plot to raise an army of the dead. Incomprehensible undersea intelligences infiltrate and colonize American seaports, and alien races lurk beneath the ice of Antarctica and high in the mountains of Afghanistan. It is only through constant vigilance and violence that the earth has survived. Strange times are upon us, the world is changing, and even death may die — but, until then, the war continues.
Softcover, 7x10, 80 pages, Full Color, $19.00
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| Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!
DEATH by ELECTION
Poster Gallery: GENE AUTRY
Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story by Cornell Woolrich (1995)
| DEJAH THORIS #4 - Arrivng in comic shops May 11!
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Art: Francesco Manna
Cover: NEN
Having taken command of an elite unit in the People’s Army of Barsoom, Dejah ventures into the badlands to search for secrets of her past. But when her unit is captured by powerful enemies, she must truly learn what it means to be a leader or suffer the consequences! An all-new chapter in the life of Dejah Thoris continues from the creative team of Frank J. Barbiere and Francesco Manna.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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| | The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!
A “Christmas Present” from the Mysterious Traveler - New!
Bird echoes Runyon, Mysterious Traveler echoes Pocket Detective - New!
Crime Syndicate Magazine #1
James E. Gunn: Beyond Fantasy Fiction
From Detective Fiction Weekly to the Mysterious Traveler
Solar Pons: The Mysterious Traveler Mystery Reader
| | Doc Con 2016
November 4, 5 & 6, 2016
Doc Con will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016.
Request that vacation time...mark those calendars and let everyone know you will be in Phoenix the first weekend of November.
Special plans are still being made to make this the best Doc Con ever!
So stay tuned for more details to follow as soon as we can announce them.
| Doc Savage - Shane Black gives us a sneak peak at how he plans to adapt 'Doc Savage' into a feature film!
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/shane-black-gives-us-a-sneak-peak-at-how-he-plans-to-adapt-doc-savage#TMSTo6EBH0j5wIho.99
| AN EAST WIND COMING: An immortal Sherlock Holmes and a deathless Jack the Ripper in a duel through space and time - Now available!
by Arthur Byron Cover
“An East Wind Coming is a decadent smorgasbord oozing sex and nihilism, peppered with the thrills of various pulp fictions and comic-book universes. In a far future the iconic characters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century pop culture have been reborn, all of them referring to themselves coyly as "the consulting detective," "the good doctor," "the Big Red Cheese," etc. Imagine Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time reinvented by a chimera of Kim Newman, Philip José Farmer, and Belgian nihilist surrealist Jacques Sternberg, and you'll get an idea of the strange atmosphere of this dense and mindwarping novel. Cosmic concepts, depressing sex, horrific crimes, and pulp heroes . . . what more could you want?”
The Magazine of F&SF
Kindle Price: $2.99
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| | Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
All New Comic Strips created exclusively for ERB, Inc. You can subscribe for only $1.99 / month
Fifteen strips currently available on the Burroughs comics website:
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Roy Thomas and Pablo Marcos, adapting the original Tarzan novels.
"Tarzan" by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg, featuring new Tarzan adventures.
John Carter: Warlord of Mars by Roy Thomas and Rodolfo Pérez Garcia.
"Korak the Killer" by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapsiz.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
"The Monster Men" by Tom Simmons, Erik Roman, L Jamal Walton, and Cristian Docolomansky
"The Lost Continent" by Martin Powell and Oscar González
"The Jungle Girl" by Martin Powell and Will Meugniot
"The Outlaw of Torn" by Thomas Simmons and Jake Bilbao
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| Enter the Barbarian: A Robert E. Howard LitCrit TriplePunchPack! - Now available!
In the front ranks of Robert E. Howard and pulp scholars for decades, Morgan Holmes now finds himself short-listed for Best Fan Writer for the 2016 Hugo Awards. To let the Hugo voters in on what the rest of us have long known, here is a collection of three of his best articles from The Cimmerian — the venue where Holmes proved especially brilliant in showcasing his particular skill set.
“Enter the Barbarian” celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the debut of Conan the Cimmerian in Weird Tales magazine. What else was in that issue with “The Phoenix on the Sword”? What led up to that moment? What followed in its wake? Holmes answers all these questions, and in addition cites one of his personal theories: that Robert E. Howard was not even close to unleashed as a writer until he began his epic correspondence with H. P. Lovecraft.
“The First Posthumous Collaborator” delves into Howard’s fragmentary interplanetary novel Almuric, and the riddle of who provided an ending so that it could appear in Weird Tales. Holmes assembles the usual — and some quite unusual — suspects for his lineup.
And in “The Statement of S. T. Joshi” Holmes questions the competence of the noted Lovecraft scholar when it comes to writing about Howardian themes, in this instance the historical background of Howard's famous cycle of stories and poems revolving around Bran Mak Morn.
Also featured is an Afterword by fellow Howard scholar Richard Toogood — plus as an eBook eXtra a round of bonus materials: selections from the numerous letters Holmes contributed to The Cimmerian’s letter column The Lion’s Den, which in and of themselves are often mini-essays — or micro-books.
Kindle Price: $2.99
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| Facebook - Now online!
There are numerous groups on Facebook that are of potential interest to pulp fans.
The Shadow Knows
Agents of The Shadow
Flearun - A Doc Savage Group
Fans of Bronze
G-8 and Operator #5
The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor Jameson alias 21MM392
The Pulp Heroes
Pulp, Pulp Everywhere and Lots and Lots to Read
Pulp Talk
Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans
The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive
ERBzine
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Worlds of Adventure
PulpFest
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention
Pulp Coming Attractions
Robert E. Howard Comics Group
The Robert E. Howard Foundation
Robert E. Howard Readers
Two Gun Bob--The Worlds of Robert E. Howard
The International Robert E. Howard Fan Association
Conan the Cimmerian
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur
Altus Press
Weird Tales Magazine
| | Now online!
New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!
April 2016
A dictator meets his comeuppance in Kirby Draycott's The Clock Face of Schaumburg which, as explained in in the introduction, bears some resemblance to a story by a certain Mr. Poe. All the original illustrations are included, just as they appeared in the November, 1898 issue of The Royal Magazine. Introduction is by Bob Gay.
March 2016
A tale of romance and espionage by Baroness Orczy, Number 187, as it appeared in the January, 1899 issue of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by Ernest Prater. Introduction by Dan Neyer.
February 2016
All is revealed to the members of The Grill Club in the third (and final) part of In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis, The Solicitor's Story, just as it appeared in the May, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
January 2016
The second part of "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis: "The Story of the Queen’s Messenger," just as it appeared in the April, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
December 2015
Direct from the March, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, we present the first portion of the three-part short story "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Introduction by Dan Neyer.
Also, to wrap up our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England, we offer to you "Reginald Pym's Class Day" as it appeared in the June, 1903 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine. Introduction and Afterword by Bob Gay.
November 2015
The only Christmas themed Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," as it appeared in the January, 1892 number of The Strand Magazine, is presented and includes an introduction by Dan Neyer and all the Sydney Paget illustrations.
Also, the penultimate Harvard Illustrated story by George Allan England, "Bench Carvings at Harvard," which we strongly believe to be England's first attempt at science fiction.
October 2015
Just in time for Halloween, we are pleased to present "In Amundsen's Tent" by John Martin Leahy, a classic horror story from the pages of Weird Tales. We've also discovered some interesting connections between this story and Leahy's other work, which you will find documented in an Afterword to the story.
Also, in a continuation of our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England we present "Sciurus Carolinensis, Esq." and article about the squirrels that, in England's day, inhabited the Harvard Yard and environs.
September 2015
Another story from the Harvard years of George Allan England, "The Divided Letter," a romance that originally appeared in the October, 1902 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine.
Also, The first Sherlock Holmes short story (and the only appearance of Irene Adler) from the July, 1891 issue of The Strand, "A Scandal in Bohemia," including all the Sidney Paget illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
August 2015
A romantic adventure set in Morocco by A. J. Dawson, The Powder Play, as it appeared in the January, 1898 issue of Pearson’s Magazine (UK).
Our presentation also includes the Warwick Goble illustrations, an introduction by Bob Gay and, as a part of the intro, a reprinting of an article that appeared in the
January, 1901 issue of The Bookman that includes additional biographical information about Dawson not found in the usual sources.
And...
Continuing our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England, we present “Two-Fifty An Hour - A Tragedy in One Act” that originally appeared in the February, 1902 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine.
July 2015
In Writings
Expanding our selection of stories by Baroness Orczy, this month we introduce The Baroness Orczy Collection, which includes a biography of the Baroness and links to her stories all in one place.
And, to kick off our new addition, we have reprinted the Baroness's third published story, The Traitor --a story which seems to have never been reprinted and has nothing to do with the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Lastly, in our continuing reprinting of George Allan England, we have put together another selection from his Harvard years, Illustrations: 3 Short Works that were originally written while he was a student and, like with the Orczy story, have never been reprinted.
June 2015
In Writings
The first, and chronologically the last, Mowgli story, "In the Rukh" by Rudyard Kipling as it appeared in the June, 1896 issue of McClure's Magazine with illustrations by W. A. C. Page and dual introductions by Bob Gay and Dan Neyer.
Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with articles, pictures and essays. In the Writings section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson, Sinclair Lewis and a large selection of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli stories and "The Man Who Would Be King." We've also added an article about Sleeman's An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, that includes a complete reprinting of the work.
In Comics, there is an overview of Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!") and a look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story that bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts with a group of collectible (and some not so) items and is the first of 24 collections.
The site is hoping for subscribers to keep it going and future plans call for more stories, more articles and there are a number of novels we also intend to add to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the last Friday of each month (which means we'll have more new stuff at the end of February).
In a few month s, we will also be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF) and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary formats.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
The Girasol Pulp Replicas project is complete.
No NEW Replicas will be added to the catalogue.
We will, for an as yet undetermined period, be keeping the existing catalogue available.
Girasol Collectables has begun retiring the less-active Replicas.
The replicas listed below will be discontinued in the next month or two.
Don't delay if there are any you're interested in!
Contact us before ordering large quantities to confirm availability.
Soon to be retired pulp replica editions!
| All Detective #27
Civil War Stories
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #1, 2
Dime Mystery Book #1
Eerie (Canadian pulp)
Mystery Adventures #7
Phantom Detective #1
Pirate Stories #1
Soldiers of Fortune #1
Strange Detective Stories #2
Strange Stories #1
Thrilling Mystery #1
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All of the remaining issues shown below are available now.
We'd like to thank everybody that has supported the project over the years, and we hope that the Replicas continue to provide reading and research enjoyment for years to come.
We do not anticipate taking on any other pulp reprint projects at this time and our Pulp Cover Gallery project is our only active item at present.
Girasol accepts checks, International money orders, and Paypal as methods of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability first before ordering items such as pulp magazines or other books.
Paypal payments can be made to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com email address.
As always, these reprints are exact copies including the illustrations, ads, and back-up stories and have been printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and finished off with a high quality reproduction of the original cover.
The only thing missing is the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.
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| | Back issues - Still available!
| | ALL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE ($25 each postpaid)
#27 January 1935 BLACK MASK MAGAZINE ($35 each postpaid)
April 1920 - First issue!
June 1,1923 - The rare KKK issue
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Spring 1940
DAN TURNER ($25 each postpaid)
Dan Turner Hollywood DetectiveNo. 1 (January 1942)
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#6 Master of Broken Men (September 1934)
#7 Invasion of the Dark Legions (October 1934)
#8 The Green Death Mists (November 1934)
#9 Legions of Starvation (December 1934)
#10 The Red Invader (January 1935)
#11 The League of War Monsters (February 1935)
#12 The Army of the Dead (March 1935)
#13 March of the Flame Marauders (April 1935)
#14 Blood Reign of the Dictator (May 1935)
#15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords (June 1935)
#16 Legions of the Death Master (July 1935)
#17 Hosts of the Flaming Death (August 1935)
#18 Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult (September 1935)
#19 Attack of the Blizzard Men (October 1935)
#20 Scourge of the Invisible Death (November 1935)
#21 Raiders of the Red Death (December 1935)
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#23 Rockets From Hell (February 1936)
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#34 Drums of Destruction (July-August 1937)
#35 The Army Without a Country (Sept-Oct 1937)
#36 The Bloody Frontier (Nov-Dec 1937)
#37 The Coming of the Mongol Hordes (Jan-Feb 1938)
#38 The Seige that Brought the Black Death (Mar-Apr 1938)
#39 Revolt of the Devil Men (May-June 1938)
#40 The Suicide Battalion (July-Aug 1938)
#41 The Day of the Damned (Sept-Oct 1938)
#42 The Dawn that Shook the World (Nov-Dec 1938)
#43 When Hell Came to America (Jan-Feb 1939)
#44 Invasion from the Sky (March-April 1939)
#45 Winged Hordes of the Yellow Vulture (May-June 1939)
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#2 The Wheel of Death (November 1933)
#3 Wings of the Black Death (December 1933)
#4 City of Flaming Shadows (January 1934)
#5 Empire of Doom (February 1934)
#6 Citadel of Hell (March 1934)
#7 Serpent of Destruction (April 1934)
#8 The Mad Horde (May 1934)
#9 Satan's Death Blast (June 1934)
#10 The Corpse Cargo (July 1934)
#11 Prince of the Red Looters (August 1934)
#12 Reign of the Silver Terror (September 1934)
#13 Builders of the Black Empire (October 1934)
#14 Death's Crimson Juggernaut (November 1934)
#15 The Red Death Rain (December 1934)
#16 The City Destroyer (January 1935)
#17 The Pain Emperor (February 1935)
#18 The Flame Master (March 1935)
#19 Slaves of the Crime Master (April 1935)
#20 Reign of the Death Fiddler (May 1935)
#21 Hordes of the Red Butcher (June 1935)
#22 Dragon Lord of the Underworld (July 1935)
#23 Master of the Death Madness (August 1935)
#24 King of the Red Killers (September 1935)
#25 Overlord of the Damned (October 1935)
#26 Death Reign of the Vampire King (November 1935)
#27 Emperor of the Yellow Death (December 1935)
#28 The Mayor of Hell (January 1936)
#29 Slaves of the Murder Syndicate (February 1936)
#30 Green Globes of Death (March 1936)
#31 The Cholera King (April 1936)
#32 Slaves of the Dragon (May 1936)
#33 Legions of Madness (June 1936)
#34 Laboratory of the Damned (July 1936)
#35 Satan's Sightless Legion (August 1936)
#36 The Coming of the Terror (September 1936)
#37 The Devil's Death Dwarfs (October 1936)
#38 City of Dreadful Night (November 1936)
#39 Reign of the Snake Men (December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned (January 1937)
#41 The Mill-Town Massacres (February 1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop (March 1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow Fangs (April 1937)
#44 The Devil's Pawnbroker (May 1937)
#45 Voyage of the Coffin Ship (June 1937)
#46 The Man Who Ruled in Hell (July 1937)
#47 Slaves of the Black Monarch (August 1937)
#48 Machine Guns Over the White House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City That Dared Not Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the Flaming Horde (November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard (December 1937)
#52 Legion of the Accursed Light (January 1938)
#53 The City of Lost Men (February 1938)
#54 The Grey Horde Creeps (March 1938)
#55 City of Whispering Death (April 1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May 1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58 The Emperor from Hell (July 1938)
#59 The Devil's Candlesticks (August 1938)
#60 The City That Paid to Die (September 1938)
#61 The Spider at Bay (October 1938)
#62 Scourge of the Black Legions (November 1938)
#63 The Withering Death (December 1938)
#64 Claws of the Golden Dragon (January 1939)
#65 The Song of Death (February 1939)
#66 The Silver Death Rain (March 1939)
#67 Blight of the Blazing Eye (April 1939)
#68 King of the Fleshless Legion (May 1939)
#69 Rule of the Monster Men (June 1939)
#70 The Spider and the Slaves of Hell (July 1939)
#71 The Spider and the Fire God (August 1939)
#72 The Corpse Broker (September 1939)
#73 The Spider and the Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74 The Spider and the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75 Satan's Murder Machines (December 1939)
#76 The Spider and the Pain Master (January 1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager (February 1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March 1940)
#79 The Man From Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor (May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82 Dictator's Death Merchants (July 1940)
#83 Pirates From Hell (August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons (Sept. 1940)
#85 The Council of Evil (October 1940)
#86 The Spider and his Hobo Army (November 1940)
#87 The Spider and the Jewels of Hell (Dec. 1940)
#88 Harbor of Nameless Dead (January 1941)
#89 The Spider and the Slave Doctor (February 1941)
#90 The Spider and the Sons of Satan (March 1941)
#91 Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92 The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)
#93 The Benevolent Order of Death (June 1941)
#94 Murder's Black Prince (July 1941)
#95 The Spider and the Scarlet Surgeon (August 1941)
#96 The Spider and the Deathless One (September1941)
#97 The Satan's Seven Swordsmen (October1941)
#98 Volunteer Corpse Brigade (November1941)
#99 The Crime Laboratory (December 1941)
#100 Death and The Spider (January 1942)
#101 Murder's Legionaires (February 1942)
#102 The Gentleman from Hell (March 1942)
#103 Slaves of the Ring (April 1942)
#104 The Spider and the Death Piper (May 1942)
#105 Revolt of the Underworld (June 1942)
#106 Return of the Racket Kings (July 1942)
#107 Fangs of the Dragon (August 1942)
#108 Hell Rolls on the Highways (September 1942)
#109 Army of the Damned (October 1942)
#110 Zara, Master of Murder (November 1942)
#111 The Spider and the Flame King (December 1942)
#112 The Howling Death (January 1943)
#113 Secret City of Crime (February 1943)
#114 Recruit for the Spider Legion (March 1943)
#115 The Spider and the Man from Hell (June1943)
#116 The Criminal Horde (August1943)
#117 The Spider and Hell's Factory (October1943)
#118 When Satan Came to Town (December1943)
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#2 December 1933
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| | Girasol Collectables Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5
Now available!
Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!
Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
$140 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $25.)
| The Golden Age - Now online!
The Golden Age blog is down.
| Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
3rd Saturday of every month
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Check the website at the link below for exact time and place information.
Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-5 PM
Place: Muhlenberg Library on West 23rd Street.
Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
| | Go Hero Now available for pre-order!
THE SPIDER
by GO HERO X EXECUTIVE REPLICAS X PHICEN LTD
The Spider 1/6th scale Action Figure
Suggested retail price - $169.99 Extremely limited production
Order due date- May 15th, 2016
THE SPIDER, foremost action hero in pulp fiction, was created by Harry Steeger as an avenging knight in a black cape. First appearing in THE SPIDER magazine in 118 epic novels mainly written by the legendary Norvell W. Page, of whom the LIBRARY JOURNAL said,
"...just may have inspired the Iron Man franchise." Adventures packed with danger, impending doom, fantastic villains, and breathtaking action, The Spider went on to star in two Columbia Pictures action serials
For the first time ever, Executive Replicas, Phicen Ltd., and Go Hero are proud to present The Spider 1:6th scale action figure.
Now you can fight evil with...
Officially licensed and Authorized by Argosy Communications, Inc
Outfit
1 Pair of 1940’s style shoes
1 x Dress tie
1 x –Long sleeved dress shirt
1 x 1930’s style two piece suit
1 x-fedora hat
1 x hood (serial version)
1 x removable mask
2 x capes (1 x Pulp version & 1 x serial version
Accessories
2 X .045 automatic guns with removable cartridge
1 X double underarm holster
3 X SETS OF hands
1 X BASE & STAND
4 COLOR PACKAGING
IMPORTANT NOTES
- These are LIMITED EDITION figures based on Pre-Orders (So don't wait)
- Professionally Manufactured by Phicen ltd.
- Produced by Executive Replicas with permission.
- Unrelated to any other previous products or companies using similar subject matter.
- 15% NRD
- International Shipping is estimated at $50
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| Now available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner Press!
Quite far along, this volume sees all proofreading complete except for the long-awaited introduction.
This cover image is still a work-in-progress and Raymond Swanland once again demonstrates that he is the master of heroic and kinetic action.
THIS IS IT! The BIG one!
All the tales of Eric John Stark in a single volume.
The stories, the novels, and for the first time, Brackett’s working notes for the abandoned FOURTH “Stark” novel from 1977.
Contents
“Queen of the Martian Catacombs”
“Enchantress of Venus”
“Black Amazon of Mars”
“Stark and the Star Kings”
The Ginger Star
The Hounds of Skaith
The Reavers of Skaith
“1977: Notes for Stark #4″
Artwork by Raymond Swanland
Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN: 9781893887862
720+ pages
Smythe-sewn Hardcover
Preorder price: $45
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LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL
Now available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner Press!
Proofreading is also complete on this title as well. We are still waiting for clearances and permissions on a several texts and images that we feel MUST be a part of this book.
And remember, there's a NEW AND UNPUBLISHED Brackett-tale in here!
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), noted author of mystery & science fiction novels—with screenplays for THE BIG SLEEP, RIO BRAVO and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK—sees her Centennial celebrated with a previously unpublished story in the forthcoming Haffner Press collection: LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL.
Discovered by editor Stephen Haffner, Brackett’s unpublished story “They” is a mature science fiction tale of power and intrigue, of homegrown xenophobia versus stellar exploration, with an answer to the ultimate question: “Are we alone?”
“They” leads off this tribute volume collecting the majority of Brackett’s nonfiction writings, supplemented with vintage interviews and commentaries/remembrances from such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Richard A. Lupoff and more.
“Her dialogue crackled, the characters lived and breathed. For any burgeoning fan of film, you couldn’t ask for a better inspiration than Leigh Brackett.” —George Lucas
“She had a marvelous ability for moving a narrative along…I remember one story of mine which had me frozen…she took over and wrote the first thousand words—and it was published that way.” —Ray Bradbury
LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL covers numerous facets and events of Brackett’s life, in her own words, and in the words of those who knew her:
- Brackett writes of bringing Philip Marlowe into the 1970s for Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye . . .
- SF-author and NASA employee Joseph Green records the time he hosted Brackett at the launch of Apollo XII . . .
- Bookseller Ray Walsh documents the day he escorted Brackett to view a new groundbreaking space-fantasy film in the summer 1977 . . .
Available for preorder, LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL continues the effort begun in 2002 by Haffner Press to collect, preserve, and present the works of Leigh Brackett for current and future generations.
Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN-13 978-1893887-84-8
500pp. Trade Paperback
$25.00
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FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 1: MURDER DRAWS A CROWD
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Still available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner Press!
As recounted previously, this book was actually printed in December 2015, but the binding job was so poor (we can show you in Chicago) that we rejected the run and the printer refused to correct the situation. We are updating the book to a 2016 release and plan to send it and DEATH IN THE DARK to a different printer at the same time.
A massive fix of liquor-fueled murder, smoke-clouded mystery, and hard-hitting revenge from the author of The Screaming Mimi and The Fabulous Clipjoint. This archival-quality hardcover assembles 38 incredibly rare stories from 1938-1942, with the original Pulp artwork from such magazines as Thrilling Detective, Masked Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. This is the book Fredric Brown fans have been waiting for!
Introduction by Jack Seabrook
ISBN: 9781893887787
744 pages
Over 100 illustrations
39 pulp magazine stories: • Detective • Mystery • Horror • Western
100-pg appendix with the "V.O.N. Munchdriller" & "William Z. Williams" comedies
Decorated endpapers
Smythe-sewn binding
Full cloth-covered binding boards
Preorder price: $40
On publication: $45
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Proofreading is complete and Fredric Brown bibliographer Jack Seabrook is hard at work on his introduction. We still need to secure a few logos for the decorated endsheets. We want a different cover for this book. The Saunders piece here is fine, but it doesn't match any of the contents. Once all materials are complete, we'll send this to the printer alongside MURDER DRAWS A CROWD.
“. . . enough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald and other crime icons. Somewhere up in literary heaven, I hope he’s looking down, sipping a beer, playing his flute and smiling.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
While the editor of this series only recently came upon the above quote from 2008, these eyes read no truer words. Work has been underway for nearly a year on assembling the first two volumes of a series provisionally titled LOADED: THE COLLECTED FREDRIC BROWN. Now is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what is hoped to be the definitive collection of Fredric Brown sans his science fiction works. Assembled in chronological order of publication, this set will contain all the short fiction (of all genres: mystery, horror, noir, western, detection, etc.) and all of Brown’s novels (again, excepting his sf works). You’ll be able to enjoy Fredric Brown at his longer lengths from The Fabulous Clipjoint and Night of the Jabberwock to The Lenient Beast and Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants.
Assisting with this effort have been Brown bibliographer Phil Stephensen-Payne and Brown biographer Jack Seabrook. This massive undertaking could not have been accomplished without their help.
Introduction by Jack Seabrook
744 pages
Over 90 illustrations
32 pulp magazine stories: • Detective • Mystery • Horror
80-pg appendix with the "Colonel Cluck/Kluck," "Barnyard Bill Says—" & "Willie Skid" bits
Decorated endpapers
Smythe-sewn binding
Full cloth-covered binding boards
Preorder price: $40
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The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two
Now available for pre-order!
Edited by Stephen Haffner
Foreword by Robert A. Madle
Introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts
Cover Art by Jon Arfstrom
700+ page Hardcover
$45.00
Production Update from Haffner Press!
The artwork is in hand, along with the introduction and foreword. Proofreading is also complete, so this will likely be the next title to go to the printer!
Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, with the minor classic “The Graveyard Rats,” Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others.
Writing for Weird Tales brought Kuttner into direct correspondence with that magazine’s premier contributor. H. P. Lovecraft. Kuttner set several stories in Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos” and two are presented in THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR: “Hydra” and “The Hunt.”
At this point in his still-young career, Kuttner had cracked the science fiction market and was steadily publishing in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Science Fiction, and made his first sale to the new prestigious fantasy magazine, UNKNOWN.
In the course of writing the stories collected in this volume, Kuttner married Catherine Lucille Moore on June 7, 1940 (in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man).
THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR is the second volume in a three-volume “Early Kuttner” set collecting many of Kuttner’s earliest stories, most of which have never been reprinted.
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| Haffner Press
The Complete Ivy Frost
by Donald Wandrei
Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
Now available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner Press!
Currently going through another round of proofreading, we have the cover art on hand (Raymond Swanland rocks it again!) and we await the introduction. The cover titles will be redone in a bronze/copper hue, and a lot of work remains on cleaning up all the covers of Clues Detective Stories that decorate the endsheets as well as designing eighteen double-page chapterheads.
It may come as a surprise to some that Donald Wandrei wrote more mysteries than all his horror, fantasy, and science fiction tales combined. This volume collects all eighteen adventures of Wandrei’s ratiocinative detective I.V. Frost, who is ably assisted by his beautiful and tough female assistant, Jean Moray. A scientist and inventor, Frost has his own approach to solving mysteries. Rather than following the usual hard-drinking, trench-coated style of many of his contemporaries, Frost’s strategy was to mix the logic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes with the technology of Lester Dent’s Doc Savage. In 2000, D.H. Olson edited a volume published by Fedogan and Bremer collecting the first eight of Frost’s adventures. A second volume of the remaining 10 tales was promised but never materialized.
Hardcover
$40
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Production Update from Haffner Press!
This magnificent tome has been proofread twice and Ed Gorman's wonderful introduction has been delivered.
In Hollywood terms, we put this "in turnaround" while we seek a cover design that reflects the atmosphere of late-1950s San Francisco.
Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by Ed Gorman Cover Art by Lawrence Noble
A massive omnibus of four novels from the late 1950s all featuring the amateur sleuthing of San Francisco psychoanalyst Michael Gray.
The Murder of Eleanor Pope —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray leads police to a three-time killer!
The Murder of Ann Avery —Psychoanalyst solves brutal slaying!
Murder of a Mistress —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray solves the killing of a girl who knew too much about too many men who had too damned much to lose.
Murder of a Wife —Marked for Murder! No one believed her—not even the police!
Hardcover
$40
Haffner Press Status Update:
Nearly everything is in hand to bring this 4-novel omnibus to you.
Once we have Fredric Brown's MURDER DRAWS A CROWD under our belt and out in the wild, this is the next title to go to press.
NOTE: this title is part of a 3-book combo of Horror & Detective titles that features an exclusive chapbook. See the Haffner Press homepage for details.
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The Six Sleepers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Five
Now available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner Press!
Bob Madle's fantastic intro is done and the manuscript has been proofread. Additional work is needed cleaning up the graphics for the appendix.
Following on from THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS, THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME FOUR, THE SIX SLEEPERS, THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME FIVE brings you more of the World Wreckers vintage works.
Here, Hamilton really put his Remington’s to the task with more stories for WEIRD TALES as well as some of his best work (which is to say some of the best work ever to appear in) for WONDER STORIES. Depending on the length of ephemera in the appendix, this volume may also see Hamilton crack the Tremaine-era of ASTOUNDING STORIES.
As with previous volumes in this series, an appendix showcasing the original pulp magazine illustrations also bulks large with obscura including reader’s letters from the vintage magazines commenting on these stories, along with editorial correspondence between Hamilton and his editors.
Introduction by Robert A. Madle
Cover Art by Margaret Brundage
Illustrated by C.C. Senf, Frank R. Paul, H.W. "Wesso" Wessolowski, Hugh Rankin, Joseph Doolin, Virgil Finlay
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00
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Hollywood on the Moon / Man About Time: The Pete Manx Adventures
Arthur K. Barnes & Henry Kuttner
Now available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner Press!
We had an introduction lined up for this from a noted SF comic, but it appears to have evaporated.
The book also needs different cover art.
This Bergey image from Startling Stories, while awesome, doesn't match the time-frame of these stories. We'll have more news later this year.
Prior to his marriage to fellow science-fantasy writer Catherine L. Moore in 1940, Henry Kuttner wrote stories of Lovecraftian horror, weird-menace “shudder” tales, and thrilling adventure stories. But he also wrote blood-n-thunder Space Opera stories in the vein of Edmond Hamilton (one of young Kuttner’s favorite authors) told with a rough-edge style similar to Kuttner’s protege Leigh Brackett.
Arthur K. Barnes, an early friend of Kuttner, published his first story “Lord of the Lightning” for Wonder Stories in December 1931. His “Interplanetary Hunter” series featuring Miss Gerry Carlyle of the London Interplanetary Zoo was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Together, Kuttner & Barnes collaborated (and in some cases, wrote independently) on two series of science fiction adventures for Thrilling Wonder Stories. The first, the “Hollywood on the Moon” series, featured ace cameraman Tony Quade of Nine Planets Films, Inc. and his crew skipping around the solar system (even teaming up with Gerry Carlyle a few times!) humorously encountering all manner of weird alien life.
The second series, dealt with the hilarious temporal romps of carnival barker, conman, and small-time crook Pete Manx. Pete is always on the run from some debt collector, or running to his lastest scam for an easy buck. Inevitably, Manx always ends up in the laboratory of Dr. Mayhem, whose unreliable time machine launches Pete into the past where he finds himself in hotter water than before.
This volume collects all the SF collaborations of these two punsters and features the interior illustrations of the original magazines.
Introduction by Ron Goulart
Cover Art by Earle K. Bergey
600+ pp. Hardcover
$40.00
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| | Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!
May 2016
THE NICE GUYS by Charles Ardai
Holland March is a private eye with a defective nose and a broken arm. Jackson Healy is the tough guy who put him in a cast. Not the two most likely men to team up to hunt for a missing girl, or look into the suspicious death of a beautiful porn star, or go up against a conspiracy of the rich and powerful that stretches from Detroit to D.C. Hell, they’re not the most likely pair to team up to do anything. But there you go. And if they somehow survive this case, they might just find they like each other.
But let’s be honest. They probably won’t survive it.
- First publication ever!
- Based on the major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe
- Written by Edgar, Shamus, and Ellery Queen Award winner Charles Ardai
Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages, $7.99
July 2016
SOHO SINS by Richard Vine
Cover art by Robert Maguire
They were the New York art scene’s golden couple—until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was pulled? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the surface of ManhattanÕs posh galleries and decadent parties, a world of adultery and madness, of beautiful girls growing up too fast and men making fortunes and losing their minds. But even the worst the art world can imagine will seem tame when the final shattering sin is revealed...
This stunning debut novel from an editor of one of world’s leading fine art publications offers an insider’s tour of the New York and international art worlds, and a searing, unforgettable visit to the darkest chambers of the human heart.
- First publication ever!
- An extraordinary first novel by an art world insider
- Cover features a lost work by legendary painter Robert Maguire
Hardcover, 352 pages, $22.99
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| ICESLINGER - Now available!
by John Hegenberger
A deadly showdown on frozen Ganymede . . . an experiment in time travel that has unexpected results . . . the dead being brought back to life—to sell insurance . . . a legendary villain seeking to summon a strange visitor from another planet . . .
These are only some of the ventures into the fantastic and bizarre to be found in ICESLINGER, the latest collection from acclaimed author John Hegenberger. These classic tales of science fiction and fantasy are filled with action, big ideas, humor, and drama. Step into the many worlds of John Hegenberger and prepare to be entertained!
Paperback: 136 pages, $8.99
Kindle: $2.99
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| James Bond: HEADS YOU DIE - Now available!
The explosive action continues in Steve Cole's second Young Bond adventure . . .
James's Cuban holiday has become a nightmare mission to save an old friend from a villain who has perfected 1,000 ways to kill.
With corrupt cops and hired assassins hot on his heels, James must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder.
Fates will be decided with the flip of a coin. Heads or tails. Live or die.
HEADS YOU DIE will be released in the UK in paperback and as a limited edition hardcover on May 5, 2016.
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Childrens
£10.49
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Red Fox
£6.99
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| Laurie's Wild West - Now online!
Windy City Report and an Auction SCORE - New!
LOVE STORY WRITER is Returning!
Daisy Bacon on Exhibit
Happy Anniversary, Daisy
LOVE STORY’s March Winds
| THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CTHULHU: NEW LOVECRAFTIAN FICTION SC - Coming May 24!
(Writers) Laird Barron & Various
A new terrifying collection inspired by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu brings some of the best established and upcoming writers sharing their best Lovecraftian horror.
For the lover of Lovecraft or newcomer to the Cthulhu mythos, this anthology provides an excellent foray into Lovecraft's world of weird fiction.
Softcover, 5x8, 512 pages, B&W $14.95
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| Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!
Captain America: Cival War movie review - New!
Gang Busters: Old Time Radio Crime Fighters
Collectors Item: The Shadow's Ring
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger
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The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!
Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.
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September 15-17, 2016!
COME MEET HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES
GET THEIR AUTOGRAPH! HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN WITH THEM!
ROBERT FULLER
KEIR DULLEA
GARY LOCKWOOD
LUCIANA PALUZZI
DEBRA PAGET
THE AMAZING KESKIN
JIM ROSIN
MARK REDFIELD
CAROL FORD
JOE MARTELLE
| KENT McCORD
DABNEY COLEMAN
KATHY GARVER
BERNIE KOPELL
JOHN AMOS
BRITT EKLAND
GERI REISCHL
RUSTY GILLIGAN
EDDIE DEEZEN
JEREMY AMBLER |
EVENTS
So much goes on during the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention that we suggest you look over the schedules and map out what seminars and movies you want to see during the weekend.
ADMISSION
Cost is $20 per person, per day. Children under the age of 16 are free.
You can pay for admission at the front gate when you attend the convention.
Admission gives you access to everything during the weekend.
EVERYONE WHO ATTENDS GETS A FREE 56-PAGE PROGRAM GUIDE!
Purchasing tickets in advance will save you money. Tickets are $15 per person, per day. If you pay for admission at the door, the cost is $20 per person, per day.
The purchase of a Saturday Evening Dinner Banquet Ticket includes free admission for Saturday. If you plan to attend the entire weekend and the dinner banuqet, buy a two-day ticket for every dinner banquet ticket you buy.
VENDORS AND DEALER ROOM HOURS
Thursday, 10 am to 9 pm
Friday, 10 am to 9 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm
HOTEL
The Convention is held at Hunt Valley Wyndham in Maryland.
The Hotel is located at 245 Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, Maryland, 21031
Hotel phone number: 410-785-7000
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS BOOKING A ROOM, ASK FOR SHARON.
| Moonstone Books: SHERLOCK HOLMES / DOMINO LADY - Arrivng in comic shops May 11!
Writers: Nancy Holder, Bobby Nash
Art: Reno Maniquis, Mike Fyles
Cover: Mike Fyles
NY Times best-selling author Nancy Holder!
Contains a brand new Domino Lady comic story, a brand new Holmes/Domino illustrated prose story, a Holmes/Domino Lady prose story with NEW illustrations, and reprints Sherlock Holmes/Domino Lady issues #1 & 2, & The Holmes Holiday Special story!
Softcover, 7x10, 124 pages, $14.95
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| Mystery*File - Now online!
Mike Nevins on CORNELL WOOLRICH, GOLDFINGER, GUY HAMILTON and THE WINSTON AFFAIR - New!
WINDY CITY PULP CONVENTION 2016 REPORT, by Walker Martin - New!
Dan Stumpf Reviews GOLDFINGER (Book & Film)
MIKE NEVINS on His Latest Book and More on JOHN CREASEY
| Off-Trail Publications - Now available!
Before he was a comic-book pioneer, Major Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson wrote adventure tales for the great pulp magazines—and no run-of-the-mill pulp fiction was it. The Major served as a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the Mexican Revolution. While the First World War raged in Europe, he fought the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines. Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war he was stationed in Western Europe. These places became the settings for the majority of his hardboiled adventure stories. His use of authentic detail, combined with his superior storytelling ability, make his stories difficult to put down. You read one of the Major’s entrancing tales—and your imagination is transported back to those real places of danger and daring!
This inaugural collection of the Major’s fiction includes stories set in all four of his real-life arenas, originally published in top adventure pulps: Adventure, Argosy, The Popular Magazine. It is time for the Major to receive his due—as one of the genuine larger-than-life men of the pulps. Included is an in-depth introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the Major’s granddaughter.
“Yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for the birth of the comic book industry as the visionary founder of what we today call DC Comics. And, yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for giving the world Superman.”
Michael Uslan,
Executive Producer of all the Batman movies,
Comic book historian, and author of his memoir, The Boy Who Loved Batman.
“Not many adventure writers can claim to have based their stories on their own exploits. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson could—and because of it, his evocations of heroism and combat have a believability and a personal depth unlike anything else in pulp fiction.”
Gerard Jones,
Author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book.
6x9-inch perfect bound; 264 pages, $20.00
Checkout earlier titles by clicking on the link below.
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| PANACEA: A Novel - Coming July 5!
by F. Paul Wilson
Two secret societies vie for control of the ultimate medical miracle--Panacea--in the latest novel by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.
Medical examiner Laura Hanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled panacea--the substance that can cure all ills--but that's impossible.
Laura finds herself unknowingly enmeshed in an ancient conflict between the secretive keepers of the panacea and the equally secretive and far more deadly group known only as 536, a brotherhood that fervently believes God intended for humanity to suffer, not be cured. Laura doesn't believe in the panacea, but that doesn't prevent the agents of 536 from trying to kill her.
A reclusive, terminally ill billionaire hires Laura to research the possibility of the panacea. The billionaire's own body guard, Rick Hayden, a mercenary who isn't who he pretends to be, has to keep her alive as they race to find the legendary panacea before the agents of 536 can destroy it.
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
List Price: $25.99
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| THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT - Blu-Ray coming May 24!
Patrick Wayne (Actor), Doug McClure (Actor), Kevin Connor (Director)
They've found the missing link... to mayhem! This surefire box-office smash delivers a daring, diabolical, dinosaur-laden fantasy adventure that's packed with hair-raising beasties and erupting fire every second. When an expedition in search of a lost colleague traces his last steps in the frozen Arctic, the team discovers a hidden tropical oasis in the middle of the ice! As things quickly thaw out, clothes come off and long forgotten cavemen - and dinosaurs - come a-hunting for fresh meat. Soon, prehistoric hysteria sets in and it's every man - and scantily clad woman - for himself.
Kevin Connor (Motel Hell) directed this sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and At the Earth s Core.
Starring Patrick Wayne (Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger), Doug McClure (Warlords of the Deep), Sarah Douglas (Superman II).
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Rated: PG
Studio: Kino Lorber
DVD Release Date: May 24, 2016
Run Time: 90 minutes
List Price: $29.95
Amazon Pre-order: $19.99
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| Perils on Planet X
Perils on Planet X #1, #2, and #3
by Christopher Mills and Gene Gonzales
Now available!
Standard Comic, Full Color, 32 pages
Print: $4.99 for each issue
Download: $0.99 for each issue
They are only available by mail order from IndyPlanet.
This is is the best way to support us and the book, as the profits go directly to Chris and Gene.
Each issue is 32 full-color pages, printed on high-quality, heavy paper stock.
| A vast, unexplored, alien world of natural and scientific wonders. Jungles, deserts and arctic wastes teeming with bizarre and savage beasts, fantastic monsters that defy evolution or reason. A dazzling variety of warlike peoples, whom, despite obvious technological advances, still swear, live and die by the sword.
Then, there’s the princess, of course.
The most beautiful woman of at least two worlds, stunning, sensual and immediately desirable. Strong of will and of unquestionable moral fiber, she is not only worth fighting and dying for, but worth defying a world for, just to receive a kind word or shy smile. |
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| PS Publishing
BLACK WINGS V
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping in May!
This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists come face to face with the appalling implications of their discoveries.
Lovecraft was a master of the “sense of place,” inventing imaginary towns in New England with a rich and sinister history stretching back centuries. In this book, Jonathan Thomas, W. H. Pugmire, and Sunni K Brock bring Lovecraft’s towns of Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth to life. Sam Gafford, Darrell Schweitzer, and Stephen Woodworth evoke terror in other corners of the American continent, while British writers David Hambling and John Reppion find Lovecraftian horror in little-known towns in England. The world-building that led Lovecraft to fashion an entire universe set in the realm of dreams is duplicated in tales by Cody Goodfellow, Mark Howard Jones, and Donald Tyson.
Madness is always an occupational hazard of the “searchers after horror” who populate Lovecraft’s tales. In this volume, stories by Robert H. Waugh, Nicole Cushing, and Nancy Kilpatrick searingly display the psychological aberrations of characters as they encounter the bizarre. Lovecraft himself has become an iconic character, and his gaunt, lantern-jawed figure stalks the tales by Jason C. Eckhardt and Mollie L. Burleson. This volume concludes, as did its predecessor, with a long poem by Wade German, one of the most dynamic figures in a remarkable renaissance of weird poetry inspired by the work of Lovecraft and his colleagues.
Black Wings V can take its place as a pioneering anthology that shows how the work of H. P. Lovecraft is inexhaustibly rich in the inspiration it can provide to contemporary writers of weird fiction.
AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S. T. Joshi
CATEGORY Lovecraft inspired Horror
PUBLICATION DATE May 2015
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
PAGES 317
INTRODUCTION S. T. Joshi
EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN 978-1-848639-94-2 [£25]
300 Slipcased HC signed by the contributors — ISBN 978-1-848639-95-9 [£50]
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| | Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2016
Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2016? You’re probably wondering what to expect from this year’s convention. PulpFest is known for its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning for our 2016 convention is shaping up to be one of our best.
We’ll be saluting a wide range of anniversaries at this summer’s pulp con: the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books; the eightieth anniversary of THE WHISPERER and THE SKIPPER; the ninetieth anniversary of AMAZING STORIES, the first science-fiction pulp; the hundredth anniversary of the specialty pulp; and the 120th anniversary of THE ARGOSY, the original pulp magazine!
The Guest of Honor for PulpFest 2016 will be author, editor, musician, and science-fiction and pulp fan Ted White.
Born February 4, 1938, Theodore Edwin White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, best known as a science-fiction author and editor and as a fan and music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.
Since the time he was a teenager, White has been a prolific contributor to science-fiction fanzines, and in 1968 he won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Despite his considerable professional credits, White maintains that his achievements in fandom mean more to him than anything else he has done. In 1953, he edited and published ZIP, the first of his many fanzines. In 1956–57, he co-edited STELLAR with Larry Stark; followed by VOID in 1960, joining founding editors Gregory and James Benford; plus MINAC, EGOBOO, and others. He was also a regular columnist for YANDRO and Richard E. Geis’ PSYCHOTIC/SF REVIEW and has been active in numerous fan events, including the organizing of the 1967 World Science Fiction Convention in New York City as co-chairman. He still remains active on several fandom- and fanzine-oriented electronic mailing lists.
In 1959, at the age of 21, White moved from Baltimore to New York City with his first wife, Sylvia Dees White. That year, he began writing music criticism for METRONOME and a column for Tom Wilson’s JAZZ GUIDE (later 33 GUIDE). As a music critic, he expanded into jazz writing and journalism for ROGUE, along with record liner notes, concert reviews and interviews. He was the only person to record an interview with Eric Dolphy, the American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. From 1977 through 1979 as Dr. Progresso, he did the Friday afternoon DR. PROGRESSO radio show on WGTB-FM. Following the advent of the Internet, White became the music editor of the Collecting Channel website in 1999, and he continues to maintain his own website of music commentary under his Dr. Progresso pseudonym.
White’s first professional sale as a writer was a short vignette sold to PLAYBOY in 1959. Two stories released on the same day — “Phoenix,” written by Ted White and revised by Marion Zimmer Bradley for the February 1963 AMAZING STORIES and “I, Executioner,” co-authored by Terry Carr for the March 1963 IF (WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) — have been cited by our guest as his first-published stories. The author later expanded “Phoenix” into the novel PHOENIX PRIME, originally published in 1966 by Lancer Books. It was the first of the QANAR series — continuing with THE SORCERESS OF QAR (1966) and STAR WOLF (1971) — all published by Lancer. “I Executioner” became the opening chapter of his Ace book, ANDROID AVENGER.
Captain AmericaTed’s first novel — INVASION FROM 2500 — was written in collaboration with Terry Carr under the pseudonym Norman Edwards. It was published in 1964. Through 1978 he wrote two science-fiction series and eleven stand-alone novels, including one Captain America novel — THE GREAT GOLD STEAL. It was published by Bantam Books and featured a nod to its pulp forebears: one of the bad guys is named Andrew “Monk” Mayfair. Two of White’s novels were written in collaboration with Dave van Arnam, one with David Bischoff and one — using White’s Doc Phoenix character — with Marv Wolfman. Ted White was a 1966 Nebula-Award nominee for his short story, “The Peacock King,” written with Larry McCombs. He was also instrumental in kick-starting the professional careers of other writers, notably Lee Hoffman. Still writing at nearly seventy-eight years of age, White has had a number of short stories published in recent years. “The Uncertain Past” appeared in the March & April 2014 number of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION while”The Philistine” can be found in the October 2015 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT.
Our Guest of Honor’s editorial career began as an assistant and associate editor at THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION from 1963 to 1968. He also served as an associate editor at Lancer Books, working under Larry Shaw. From October 1968 until October 1978, Ted White edited AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC, upgrading the quality of both magazine’s fiction while showcasing a variety of talented illustrators. According to author, anthologist, and science-fiction and popular-culture historian, Mike Ashley, White ushered “AMAZING into a silver, if not a golden, age.” He also edited two 1973 anthologies, THE BEST FROM AMAZING STORIES and THE BEST FROM FANTASTIC. Both were published by Manor Books.
Ted White’s reputation as an editor impressed the publishers of HEAVY METAL who hired him in 1979 to introduce non-fiction into the magazine. White immediately hired four columnists — Jay Kinney, Lou Stathis, Steve Brown and Bhob Stewart — to cover, respectively, underground comics, music, science fiction, and movies. HEAVY METAL continued to feature mainly graphic stories during White’s tenure as the new editor wove the text into the graphic art, rather than segregating it into a separate section. In 1984-85, Ted White served as Editorial Director for STARDATE, a multi-media science-fiction magazine edited by David Bischoff.
Ted became a pulp collector as a teenager. He owns most of the science-fiction pulps from the 1940s and many from the twenties and thirties. Among his holdings are complete runs of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES, both issues of MIRACLE SCIENCE AND FANTASY STORIES, all the Futurian-edited magazines, the complete run of CAPTAIN FUTURE, and many other titles. His library of pulp and science-fiction digests is complete from 1951 through the nineties. He also owns many single-character pulps, including all but one issue of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE and a couple dozen issues of THE SHADOW. He also has many issues of THE AVENGER, CAPTAIN ZERO, THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE, THE WHISPERER, and other hero pulps in his collection.
White also plays keyboards and saxophone. He currently performs with the Washington, DC area improvisational group Conduit. Although we’d love to have him play, Ted will be speaking to PulpFest attendees during our evening programming about his career, fandom, pulps, science fiction, and AMAZING STORIES. His Guest of Honor speech will take place on Friday, July 22nd in the PulpFest programming room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. We hope to see you at the convention.
To give you an idea about what you’ll encounter from July 21st through July 24th at the Hyatt Regency and the city’s spacious convention center in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district, below is the proposed scheduled for PulpFest 2016. We hope to see you at the convention.
Thursday, July 21st
Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird Shopping
Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G. Wells (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the hotel bar and talk pulp)
Friday, July 22nd
Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip José Farmer (panelists to be announced)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — Our Guest of Honor (to be announced on January 11th)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The First Science-Fiction Pulp — An AMAZING Story (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and its Romantic Sisters (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Pulp Western (Will Murray)
Saturday, July 23rd
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room, Second Floor
Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (Ron Fortier new pulp panel)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum — Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at a Dick’s Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:25 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:45 PM — 2016 Munsey Award Presentation (presented by J. Randolph Cox or Stephen T. Miller)
8:00 – 8:45 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s First Pulp Magazine (Doug Ellis)
8:55 – 9:40 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY — 120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John Gunnison & Joseph Saine)
Sunday, July 24th
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All (many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
For questions about our programming, please write to our programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.
| PULPDOM - Now online!
PulpdomOnline #11 - New!
Contents
"THE OTHER PAL-UL-DON: Part I - As It Evolved in Dell Comics" by Mike Taylor
"Burroughs’Romantic Hero" by Charles A. Madison
CALGAICH THE SWORDSMAN by Gordon D.Shirreffs reviewed by Mike Taylor
CHILDREN OF THE DRAGON by Frank S. Robinson reviewed by Mike Taylor
Pulpdom is a magazine about the old pulp magazines of the early 20th century and the authors whowrote for them.
With 75 issues in 15 years, it has published over 2000 pages of articles, essays, short biographies, artwork, book reviews and pulp magazine covers, from the 1890s through modern times.
All 85 back issues on disk for $25 postage paid, allow 10 days (this includes the 10 "Online" issues to date).
Links to a PULPDOM Index and the contents of each issue are at Pulpdom.com.
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| Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!
New this week
"A Slip in Crime" by Greta Bardet from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, April, 1944
When Detective Charles Weber slipped on the rug in the murder room, the thud of his fall was also the slam of the death house door for a murderer.
"That Pony Gulch Hold Up" by Paul Bailey from ARGOSY, March 2nd, 1918
A Western story, involving outlaws, an impersonation, and romance.
"Hijacker's Payoff" by Henry F. Church from SECRET AGENT "X", February, 1937
Pert young Rosa O'Mara flirted so much with excitement that she was slated for lead-slug wages when she played cashier for a .... Hijacker's Payoff
| | PULPlications!
PULPlications! Is proud to present its first in a series of New Pulp Heroes for a New Millennium!
Introducing DARE DEVLIN, the Supreme Adventurer !
A fearless green-eyed red-haired handsome Devil who fights on the side of the Angels! Scion of fourteen generations of heroic American pioneers dedicated to physical, intellectual and moral self-development since 1776, he's achieved "Peak Human" Condition!
Devlin and his Amazing Associates, all of whom faced certain Death and lived, now consider themselves to be living on "borrowed time" and honor-bound to use every remaining moment seeking justice for all! Where others may be daunted, they rise to any Challenge, because they all should've died long ago!
The Supreme Adventurer and his Amazing Associates battle the Brain-Wrecker, the Destroyer of Minds! Following a trail of madness and death, they'll travel under the polar ice to the shores of Japan before coming to grips not only with the Brain-Wrecker but also an unexpected and even more powerful foe!
Available now in paperback or a deluxe hard cover version with an added bonus story, “Mechanized Death!”
For collectors , pre-orders for a special crimson cloth hard cover edition signed by the author, Dafydd Neal Dyar as well as the introduction writer, the Eisner Award nominee Martin Powell and Rondo Award winner, cover artists Mark Maddox are now open at Fantom Press.
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| Pulp Adventurecon
November 5, 2016!
| Pulp Crazy - Now online!
Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 3) by Fritz Leiber
Conan Vs Rune by Barry Windsor-Smith
The Affair of the Cuckolded Warlock by H. Warner Munn
| Pulp Den - Now online!
Fever City - New!
Endlight Event
Lost In Tanganyika
If I Were You
| Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.
Tom Curry - Author, Engineer, Sportsman - New!
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Alex Raymond
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Edgar F. Wittmack
Step back in time to 1931 with this beautiful photo animation from Moscow artist Alexsey Zakharov
| Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!
Publishing legends The Black Mask (1920), Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing Stories (1926) are considered so “extremely rare and valuable” that the U.S. Library of Congress houses its collection of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division—along with the personal libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. With its latest addition of 4 issues of The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has made all 3 classic titles available together—for the first time—in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.
Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, new issues of the iconic “weird menace” pulp, Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946); Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928; feat. Walt Coburn’s “The Man Who Hated Himself”); Western Story (Jul. 27, 1940); Detective Story (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley’s “Thubway Tham’s Thothial Thecurity”); and histories of both The Black Mask (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and Dime Mystery Magazine (Emily Sisler; University of West Florida).
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.
At the heart of the Project's mission is the archive itself. In summer 2011, it began with a modest library of five representative first-generation pulp titles from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad range of pre-1923 titles, post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select titles from 1896 to 1946.
The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on upcoming conferences and conventions, and promote new working relationships between academics and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors beyond the college and university.
| | | Pulp Newsgroups - Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are of potential interest to pulp fans.
Information on several of these groups and a link to sign up is posted below.
Abraham Merritt: This group is dedicated to all of the fiction of ABRAHAM MERRITT. Merritt's novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps, reprints, and any movies based on these works can all be discussed here. Also, any artwork from any of the above pertaining to Merritt's writing can be discussed and displayed. If interested, questions and statements about other authors that copied or imitated Merritt's style can be posted.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/
CoverUps: Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/
Doc Con: The annual Doc Savage Convention gathered together for the first time on October 24, 1998. The convention also known as Doc Con is the brainchild of Rob Smalley who together with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney Rogers have hosted the event each year in Arizona. Traditionally held the second Saturday of each November, Doc Con attracts residents from around the country, for a weekend of planned Doc Savage events as well as discussions and camaraderie. Follow along with the planning each year by participating in this group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/
Burroughs Group: This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure, Burroughs (1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/
FictionMags: The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss the history of fiction magazines, and to exchange information about magazines which have carried fiction, past or present. Particular emphases are on the "Gaslight" magazines of circa 1880-1914, the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th century, the "Big Slick" magazines of the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines of the 1950s and 1960s -- and any other areas of magazine publishing which have been important for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of the publishing history of the magazines concerned, their editors and editorial policies, the authors they published, and so on.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/
Flearun: This group is for fans of all the incarnations of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/
H.R. Haggard: This group is dedicated to one of the greatest of adventure/fantasy writers , H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/
Justice Inc.: This group is dedicated to the [1940's pulp version] of Richard Benson and his group of crime fighting adventurers , Justice Inc. Everything about this group can be discussed [ comics, pulps, radio shows, paperbacks, current news]also if anyone is interested in Paul Ernst---In the roaring heart of the crucible...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/
Otis Adelbert Kline: This group is devoted to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works in the science fiction, weird and historical fiction genre and his general biography can also be discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/ to join!
Pulp Fiction Uncensored: is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/
PulpMags: If you're interested in the old pulp magazines, this forum is the place to be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here.This moderated list is setup along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/
Pulp Swap Group: Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus wants, in the file section or individual messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/
REH Comics Group: This group is dedicated to the characters created by Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic book form from Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite Entertainment etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/
Vintage Paperbacks: A forum for readers and collectors of classic paperback books, primarily from the "vintage era" of 1939 to 1960 (roughly speaking). Ace Doubles, Dell Mapbacks, L.A. Bantams, Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks, and many more - we cover them all. Discussion of all genres is welcome and we particularly want to hear about any rare and unusual paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks that you might be able to share. We discuss the cover artists, the writers, the publishers, and anyone and everyone connected with the great world of vintage paperback books. Read a great old book lately? Come on in and tell us about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/
Western Pulps: This list is dedicated to the discussion of Western pulp magazines -- the characters, the authors, the stories, the paperback reprints, and anything else connected with Western pulps. Though the primary emphasis is on pulps, we also discuss non-pulp Western novels, movies, comics, etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/
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James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook
#12 The Army of the Dead
by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele
Read by Milton Bagby
Now available!
The news spread like wild-fire. A man had solved the problem of the ages — he was bringing the dead back to life! Operator #5, ace of the American Secret Service, recognized the grave menace. He realized the danger if the gigantic advances of modern science were employed selfishly by unscrupulous men. And that precisely was the danger facing his native land! The Master of Death, using the promise of life everlasting, was cunningly building an army of fanatic, half-mad followers, men who were burning, pillaging and slaying at the will of the man-monster they worshipped!
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From out of the pages of Operator #5 magazine steps a dramatic hero who pits himself against threats to national security from all origins. Whether it’s a subversive internal threat, or a full-scale invasion from an enemy land, James Christopher stood ready and resolute to defeat it.
James Christopher did not technically belong to the U. S. Secret Service. He was a top agent for an America’s unnamed Intelligence Service. It was in his blood. His father, John Christopher, retired from the same agency years before. Answerable only to his superior, Z-7, and carrying a letter from the President of the United States identifying him as Operator #5, Jimmy Christopher played for keeps. He carried a rapier sewn into his belt, and in a golden skull hanging from his watch-chain was a reservoir of poison to be taken in the event of capture.
Aided by a small group of trusted assistant, ranging from his twin sister Nan to scrappy street urchin Tim Donovan, Jimmy Christopher was a one-man defense force. Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit — and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.
The Army of the Dead is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the March 1935 issue of Operator #5 magazine.
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs
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Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Spider #106 eBook (July 1942)
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Now available!
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Meet the Spider! by Will Murray
“The Web — A Department
Conducted by The Chief
The spirit that can lick crime!
Book-Length Spider Novel
Return Of The Racket Kings
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
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To the grim, staccato music of tommy-guns and the crashing overtones of “pineapples,” there rose once more the murderous gangs of the bootleg-crazy Twenties. Could the Spider protect his country, on three separate seething crime fronts — even as the Weasel and the Snake closed in for the kill — and Kirkpatrick’s gun blasted his last brilliant strategy?
Private Performance — For Death! — An Ed Race Story
by Emile C. Tepperman
The Masked Marksman’s act was fantastically unorthodox: The stage was a scaffold bearing an innocent man; the back-drop was an empty jailhouse; the spectators, all masked, were shooting at Ed Race — who seemed about to play his last role... in hell!”
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want. $3.99.
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Ever since Biblo and Tannen placed a banner across the cover art of TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS to keep from shocking the public, fans have longed to see the famous Frazetta image properly displayed on their copies of the Canaveral Press dust-jacket.
Now, after over 100 hours of research, careful study of more than 70 different Frazetta watercolors, and careful production, the Alternate Timeline™ version of TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS is available from Recoverings.
With coloring approved by Frazetta friend and collector, and Edgar Rice Burroughs scholar Robert R. Barrett, this full color dust-jacket presents the art with the same palette and watercolor techniques that Frazetta himself might well have used at that point in his career.
Here is a new way to see and display the final collection of ERB’s shorter Tarzan stories. This is how the jacket might have looked if Canaveral had had the money to do it right.
A limited edition, only 64 of these jackets will be available.
Each will be individually printed, to order, on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880, with 8-color UltraChromeK3 archival inks on 47lb. Red River Premium Matte paper, to closely match the stock of the original.
Each jacket will be numbered and inscribed to the buyer.
Limited to 64 copies: $40.00
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June 10 and 11, 2016!
The Robert E. Howard Foundation and Project Pride of Cross Plains, Texas are proud to announce the dates and Guest of Honor for the 2016 version of Howard Days, to be held June 10th and 11th at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains.
This year’s Guest of Honor is Michael Scott Myers, screenwriter for the movie The Whole Wide World, the biographical film based on the book One Who Walked Alone, which recounted the relationship between Robert E. Howard and Novalyne Price. We are happy to welcome Michael as our GOH, as he is the perfect person to blend with our Howard Days theme this year, Anniversaries.
2016 finds us with a number of important Robert E. Howard Anniversaries: 110 years since his birth, 80 years since his death, 70 years since the publication of Skull Face and Others, 50 years since Conan the Adventurer from Lancer, 40 years since Glenn Lord’s The Last Celt, 30 years since Novalyne Price Ellis’ One Who Walked Alone and 20 years since the movie The Whole Wide World (which was based on Novalyne’s book).
Michael’s involvement with The Whole Wide World began with his being a student of Novalyne Price Ellis in Lafayette, LA. Having read her book about Howard, he knew what a wonderful movie it would make. So, our Guest of Honor is doubly qualified this year and we’re thrilled to have him.
There is lots more information to follow and you can read about it here and at the Howard Days blog. While the cold winds of January are blowing now, make plans to come to Texas in June where the warmth will be in both the air and in the fellowship of Robert E. Howard fans!
Panel Schedule
FRIDAY June 10. Panels to be held in the Cross Plains High School Library
11 am: 30 YEARS OF HOWARD DAYS. The origins and history of Howard Days will be discussed, along with a showing of photos from over the years. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and Susan McNeel-Childers of Cross Plains will tell their tales.
1:30 pm: The Whole Wide World and One Who Walked Alone. Guest of Honor Michael Scott Myers will discuss the movie, the book and Novalyne Price Ellis, as interviewed by Mark Finn.
2:30 pm: Presentation of the Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and a cast of several. 30 minutes.
9:00 pm: Fists at the Ice House. Mark Finn, Chris Gruber, Jeff Shanks and Patrice Louinet will entertain you with a spirited discussion of the Pugilistic Bob Howard, complete with readings from Howard’s boxing tales. Held on the actual site of the Ice House where Howard boxed.
SATURDAY June 11. Panels to be held at the Cross Plains Senior Center
11:00 am: REH and FRAZETTA: Celebrating the Fifty Year Legacy of the Lancers. Come hear a lively discussion about this benchmark event in Howard Publishing along with the importance of Frank Frazetta’s iconic cover paintings for the series.
Panelists to include: Gary Romeo, Special Guest Val Mayerik, Jeff Shanks and Rusty Burke (with an opening monologue by Bill Cavalier).
1:30 pm: The Life of Robert E. Howard – A discussion of Howard’s life, his working habits, his mannerisms, his routines, his quirks, his interests. We’ll talk about Howard the Man as opposed to Howard the Writer and also show some rare Howard artifacts (typescripts, photos etc.). Panelists to include: Mark Finn, Patrice Louinet, Chris Gruber and Paul Herman.
2:30 pm: The First Annual Glenn Lord REH Symposium. A presentation by several REH scholars regarding Howard the Writer, with special essay readings by Daniel Look, Jonas Pridas, Todd Vick, Dierk Guenther. Moderator: Jeff Shanks. 90 minutes.
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The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins is Coming!
Coming soon!
The title says it all.
The next book from the REH Foundation Press will be Volume One of the complete stories of Breckinridge Elkins.
Complete details when available.
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QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST Audiobook
Coming in June!
At the right is the finished cover art, sans lettering, for an audio book of the REH classic, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST from BonaFide Outlaw Freepress coming out in June.
More news on this when available.
BonaFide Outlaw Freepress
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| THE ROCKETEER AT WAR! #3 (OF 4) - Arrivng in comic shops May 11!
Marc Guggenheim (Writer), Dave Bullock (art & cover)
Cliff Secord -- the Rocketeer -- is reporting for duty! Now a soldier in the United States Army, the Rocketeer faces his deadliest challenge yet in the Nazi plan to take over the world known as Project Bedlam!
Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99
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Research copies are now available!
Archive DVD featuring Warren Hull - 15 Chapters (Complete)
One of the major original pulp heroes comes to the screen in the greatest adaptation of pulp to film ever created, featuring Warren Hull and Iris Meredith. Consistently rated one of the top 5 cliffhanger serials of all time by fans, and hugely influential. Source: new digital transfer of 16mm original print, complete, with generally excellent sharp picture quality, restored picture element with stabilization, exposure correction, and noise reduced audio.
Status: Restoration complete, archive DVD requests are shipping now.
To request a research copy, click here.
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DVD Set, 12 Episodes + Memorabilia Slideshow
2 hours 26 minutes
$ 21.95
Chapter Titles
1 THE DIVE OF DEATH 16:56
2 THE STORM GOD STRIKES! 18:11
3 THUNDERING DEATH 12:42
4 THE PIT OF PERIL 15:23
5 BLOOD MONEY 6:54
6 VOODOO VENGEANCE 11:21
7 CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS 8:10
8 THE CREEPING TERROR 7:05
9 EYES OF EVIL 13:53
10 THE DEATH PLUNGE 5:49
11 HARVEST OF HATE 9:14
12 JUNGLE JUSTICE 15:10
SLIDESHOW
Click on the link above for complete details on this production, a preview from Chapter 1, and the ordering link.
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THE RESTORATION
The existing feature version of TARZAN THE FEARLESS is a hastily-assembled condensation of the original material which presents a good deal of it out of order and some scenes without proper setup or explanation.
Additional footage not seen since the serial's original release has been made available to the Squadron which will be incorporated into this DVD restoration of the serial that will be presented in original single-chapter form, with opening and closing titles and cliffhanger endings intact.
Existing content here is presented in its original cliffhanger format, and every chapter is represented in the DVD. Stil-missing sections have been reconstructed and summarized according to the available information in the existing original script draft, the Big Little Book text, and published descriptions of chapters as released.
The content which remains missing from the serial involved a capture of the explorers by the Koso tribe and their escape from execution, and a sequence in which Tarzan rescues Mary from capture by the soldiers of Zar but is knocked from a high rock by a thrown bolo, then rescued by his friend Taug the gorilla. Photos from both sequences are included in the DVD.
Light toning effects are used mostly on the early episodes to help bring out the clarity of the image and define action locations.
| The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!
The Devil's Partner - New!
The Shadow's Rival
Judge Lawless
The Golden Masks
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SKELOS: THE JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION AND DARK FANTASY
Kickstarter campaign lauches May 10 and runs through June 10!
First issue to ship in late June!
Skelos Press is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship journal with a Kickstarter campaign that will begin on Tuesday May 10th. The first issue of SKELOS: THE JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION AND DARK FANTASY will feature a never-before-published fantasy piece by Robert E. Howard (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane) illustrated by the legendary Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales, Coming of Conan, Prince Valiant). Also featured is a new sword and sorcery novelette by Keith Taylor (Bard series, Cormac Mac Art), a long-awaited sequel to his classic tale "Men from the Plain of Lir" originally published in WEIRD TALES. This story will be illustrated by the fantastic Tomás Giorello (Dark Horse King Conan). Another highlight of the issue will be a tale of dark fantasy from World Fantasy Award nominee and John W. Campbell Award nominee Scott A. Cupp.
SKELOS is edited by Mark Finn, author of the World Fantasy Award-nominated BLOOD AND THUNDER; Chris Gruber, editor of Robert E. Howard's BOXING STORIES from the University of Nebraska Press; and Jeffrey Shanks, co-editor of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated UNIQUE LEGACY OF WEIRD TALES.
Editor Mark Finn stated, "I'm excited to be part of the editorial staff for this journal. We are finding and publishing material that we love to read, and read about. There's a long-standing tradition to weird fiction, and we think we can contribute something new and exciting to it."
The first issue will contain short fiction from such talented writers as Charles Gramlich, Dave Hardy, Jason Ray Carney, Ethan Nahte, Scott Hannan, and Matt Sullivan; a fully illustrated adaptation of Grettir and the Draugr from the Icelandic sagas by Samuel Dillon; weird verse by Frank Coffman, Pat Calhoun, Kenneth Bykerk, and Jason Hardy; Insightful essays by Nicole Emmelhainz, Karen Kohoutek, and Jeffrey Shanks; reviews by Charles Hoffman, Bobby Derie, Keith West, Todd Vick, Paul McNamee, Deuce Richardson, Brian Murphy, and Josh Adkins; and with illustrations by Mark Schultz, Tomás Giorello, Samuel Dillon, and David Cullen.
The Kickstarter campaign will run until June 10 and the issue will begin shipping in late June with an ebook version available at the same time.
More information can found at the Skelos Press Facebook page at the link below or you can follow the project on Twitter @SkelosPress.
| Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.
Alicia Ramsey (1864-1933) - New!
Six Women from Britain-Introduction - New!
Two Victorian British Authors - New!
Two Irish Authors - New!
Two Belgian Authors
Two Australian Authors
More Weird Tales from the Renaissance
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
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